This is the research blog of Anders Jensen-Waud. Here I publish my research and thoughts on enterprise architecture, process management, and management in general. My views are purely personal and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer.

Friday, 16 November 2012

John Gotze and I have published a new peer-reviewed paper in the Journal of Enterprise Architecture with the title: A Systemic-Discursive Framework for Enterprise Architecture. You can download the paper from here (note: this requires AEA membership). If you are not a member of AEA let me know and I will send you a PDF copy of the paper.

This article examines, through a case study of an Australian government
agency, the systemic and discursive properties of Enterprise
Architecture adoption in a government enterprise. Through the lens of
Luhmann’s generalised systems theory of communication, the authors argue
that the manner in which organisational communication is organised
throughout the Enterprise Architecture adoption process has a noticeable
impact on successful implementation. Two important conclusions are
made: Firstly, successful Enterprise Architecture adoption demands
sustainable resonance of Enterprise Architecture as a discourse
communicated in the enterprise. Secondly, misunderstanding and reshaping
Enterprise Architecture as a management discourse is an inherent
premise for high quality adoption. The authors propose a new theoretical
model, the Enterprise Communication Ecology, as a metaphor for the
communicative processes that precede, constrain, and shape Enterprise
Architecture implementations. As a result, Enterprise Architecture as a
discipline must adopt a systemic-discursive framework in order to fully
understand and improve the quality of Enterprise Architecture management
programs.